When the Rubber Hit the Road for David Hume - Readwise Highlights
Metadata
- Author: Kerry Walters
- Full Title: When the Rubber Hit the Road for David Hume
- Category: articles
- Summary: Or, Suicide: Philosophy vs Life
- URL: https://kerrywalters.substack.com/p/when-the-rubber-hit-the-road-for
Highlights
- If it’s legitimate for me to withdraw from society because of age or infirmity, why may I not “cut short these miseries at once by an action which is no more prejudicial to society?” (View Highlight)
— Is suicide a
- Crime against God?
- Crime against society?
- Crime against self?
He convincingly argued against all this. But when it came to publicly proclaiming that he was for the right of suicide, he never did it.